February 2023 - EpiData-list - University of Manitoba Mailing Lists

Jumps in Epidata Entry
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 15 Jul '26

15 Jul '26

Dear list, I have two questions regarding Jumps in EpiData Entry. 1) I want to jump to variable v10 if de score for v8 is 1 to 7. Of course this works: v8 RANGE 1 9 COMMENT LEGAL USE oplcat JUMPS 1 v10 2 v10 3 v10 4 v10 5 v10 6 v10 7 v10 END MUSTENTER END Is a shorter syntax possible and if so, how? 2) Is it possible to make a jump defination that depends on the value entered in a previous question? For example: After entering the value for variable v5 I want to jump to v8 if the answer on question v3=1. Kind Regards, Pieter van Groenestijn The Netherlands

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fill fields from COMMENT LEGAL file
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 15 Jul '26

15 Jul '26

I'm studying the copydata example to learn how to extract several variables from a file identified in a COMMENT LEGAL statement. In A3.chk, the statement "TYPE COMMENT atransfer" appears. What is atransfer? I don't see where it has been defined as a variable and I don't find it as a system variable. Further, the program seems to be parsing the string in atransfer according to the position of punctuation. Where is the format of this string defined? Perhaps to be a bit more explicit: I have file with a list of CHWs: District, Village, CHW name and a survey conducted by the CHWs. As the data is entered for the survey, I'd like to present pick lists to facilitate entry. The data is quite strictly hierarchical: Villages occur within Districts, an CHWs live in villages. Thank you,

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Windows 11 - Yhe Libeay32.dll issue
by EpiData support support and user community 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Dear Jamie and Jens, thank you for replying, I have made different menu-driven systems where files are stored in relative subfolders. I include the program files so the user can run it from a USB stick or a Citrix share without additional installation procedure. I have found that removing or renaming the Libeay32.dll file in the corresponding program directory, the program asks for default directory etc on first execution. Later on, Manager and Entryclient runs without difficulty. I am not sure if that may cause other problems, though. best wishes Vegard

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Re Installation of EpiData Manager on Windows 11 - The Libeay32.dll issue
by EpiData support support and user community 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Dear list, I have also had problems starting Manager and Entryclient. Thank you for pointing at the Libeay32.dll. I am not an expert on this, and need some advice: The file is part of any EpiData installation. Renaming it to something else makes the application start as a first time execution, and I am asked to select a working directory etc, and after that is done once, the program seems to work normally. However, there are other application folders that contain the same library. When I copied one of these files into the EpiData directory as suggested in a former post, the ssleay32.dll file reported an error. I would therefore highly appreciate advice on how to correctly deal with this issue. PS: I organize my project as separate installations where both data and executables are kept in their own folder structure. Is this a problem - maybe a wrong instance of the library is executed? DS Best wishes. Vegard Høgli MD, MPH, Norway

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